I don’t know, it’s just experience. Especially onions.

Sugar in them, I think.

I mean, I’ve eaten a lot of things I don’t usually eat, when there was social pressure of the kind this photo shows.

And he does look unhappy on the photo.

But, ahem, this resembles celebrity discussions.

Only should be really careful about lentils, peas, anything that sticks to the bottom.

Cabbage is good. Beef is good. Potatoes are good. Carrots - make it go bad a bit faster when not on fire. Same with peas. And of course with onions it’ll go bad very fast.

There were, you know, Torvalds-Tannenbaum and “cathedral vs bazaar” disputes either of which combined with this would show the way in the direction opposite of what Linux people consider the winning one.

Exactly about complexity and centralization and independence, even though it may not seem so.

Linux is more complex than it has to be. Its main advantage over a few other operating systems, which is hardware support, has nothing to do with its unjustified complexity in everything else.

Bad actors will GLADLY spend a year or two sneaking in various MRs to compromise a browser because it can potentially pay enough to never have to hack again.

I dunno, this seems to work against the point you seem to be making.

There’s a clear concept of what the Web is. A secure browser for that is not so complex. Also look at Gemini.

However, there’s also commercial demand for functionality which has been pushed to browsers instead of, well, anything, a Java applets alternative or Flash alternative with good sandbox, for example.

And now we can many times see that the reason this has been done had nothing to do with it being a better solution.

Just a certain company making one of the browsers had a long-term strategy of making their own competitor of Flash and Java applets (and what not, there were many other such plugins for embedded content) the standard.

I love it. We take away their de facto standards. We increase their day job workload exponentially. And then we expect them to put in the after hours efforts to optimize page loading.

Do people have to spend hours to optimize loading of an e-book? Again, there’s a clear concept of what Web is. It’d be just good tone to treat it as that and “platform for applications” as something secondary that shouldn’t impede the primary goal. Something like street traders squatting on a church square.

My position is that anything else should be embedded content handled by various plugins.

One can refactor the existing “HTML5, modern CSS with complex DOM and all that crap”, maybe even JS. functionality into a plugin based on Chrome released by Google, why not, of course removing those things from the Web itself. I know this reads as if I were smoking weed right now. But suppose that happens, you know as well as I do that people would mostly prefer websites not using that.

I have an objection.

You can build processes so that enthusiasts would be able to combine their effort into a project that everyone can use.

Just the model Linux and Chrome and other big projects have is not that. They are complex and centralized.

It is more efficient, yes.

At best? We are looking back at the dark times where anyone doing ANYTHING “web” related needed to have like twelve different browsers installed and fix specific bugs for internet explorer and netscape and so forth. More likely? We are seeing massive stagnation and you can bet that every single blackhat (and most of the greyhats) are gonna be out for blood.

Maybe that’s for the best. Some frugality with using standards. Web is a planetary library more than it is a platform for applications.

Well, working from home it still requires discipline to optimize distractions, but it’s at least possible.

Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

That would be ASPD.

The impostor syndrome and such are crazy though, when working remotely from my dust and removedroaches box.

When talking about people with ASD that’s called unmasking and is one of the main goals of therapy.

Always has been

Funny. I’ve always been proud of understanding things deeper than people around me (or trying).

But at the same time those people around would treat as something miserable the fact that I don’t even try to remember dates, numbers, names, other specific facts not necessary for understanding the whole architecture. I’m fine with that context, but it’s obvious.

My (night school) education, personally, improved quite a lot with COVID. Yep, it was disrupted. But instead of spending two hours in transport I’d be at my desk. Instead of just sitting in a boring depressing auditory with my ADHD, ASD and possibly PTSD, I was at my desk with tea and my laptop and maybe some food and my dog nearby.

If we are hopeful, that’s what RFK should go after in fact. Homeopathy.

But, judging from where he starts, skoleotherapy, as in worm treatment, is the new fashion for you.

I wanna play Plague Inc again.

Except this cult doesn’t even have fun drug fueled orgies.

Drugs may be bad for one’s health, but orgies are good. So yes please. I’ll be the cult leader with prima noctae right.

That would be a noble endeavor.

Why would you blame them if they have all those “conveniences” like the default save location, file managers focusing on pics to click and and not directory structure, and so on. Of course they don’t know, they don’t know they have to know and thus don’t think they could choose or something.

These things were not invented for computer-literate people. The way they were being made in year 1999 they were usable for common folk.

Blaming normies as people who can’t do things is delusional. Modern UI\UX, which is plain stupid and unprofessional, is the problem. Normies are fine. They can be taught to navigate a paper book, right? Then they can do this.

By the way, I still remember my fury when auto-complete suggestions, AJAX search on webpages, default locations for saving files and other such things started becoming the only considered way to do anything. Because I knew where this all leads. It’s not hard to imagine how a person who’ve never had anything else will form their habits.

And not only these “simplifications” are everywhere, but also they UI\UX has become more cluttered everywhere! It’s an unusable mess, and it being that is justified by having some “convenience” magic that makes it even bigger mess.

This is why Windows should have remained a shell for DOS. On Unix-like systems the competition between various desktops slows down this degeneracy. That’s what they are trying to solve with Wayland, so that people could only use Gnome, KDE and a couple of half-functional compositors with too long config files to set up with my ADHD.

Even those guys are getting some understanding of modern warfare, wow.

BTW, I know that shouldn’t be too public, but are NATO countries doing this? Because Hollywood movies are good and all, but this is the revolution that has already happened, like tercios. I mean cheap mass-produced drones. One can talk quality-over-quantity all one wants, but there’s no way one wins against a well-organized equal force possessing those in good numbers. And level of organization is something hard to predict and developed by experience, so hoping for Russia and NK and China and who not remaining clumsy would not be wise.

Oh, basically the moment I’ve learned that many school shooters are autistic and I’m likely autistic, I started joking on that subject.

I mean, it (still) feels funny. Not that autistic people are braver (often seems the opposite), we just fear different things than NT generally. So what NT people (especially kids, especially in an environment prone to bullying) fear is not what we fear.

Boris Johnson also knows a thing or two about homoerotic stuff, UK good schools and all.